It's All About the Principal

With apologies to Miss Hannigan, Agatha Trunchbull is the most feared supervisor of children on Broadway this season.

In the new Broadway production of Roald Dahl's "Matilda," British actor Bertie Carvel plays Trunchbull—the demented school headmistress who calls children "maggots" and sends them to a detention cupboard called "the chokey"—with remarkable, sociopathic zeal.